Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I shall consume. I knew the majority would come here and talk about the middle class. They are trying to escape from their failure to help take action to provide jobs for middle class Americans. They also, by the way, so far haven't helped out to provide the continuation of the unemployment insurance for hundreds of thousands of people, so many in the middle class, who have lost their jobs. Look, I quoted from CBO, and I guess I will have to quote again. This is in February. ``In CBO's judgment, there is no compelling evidence that part-time employment has increased as a result of the ACA.'' I will quote again from this study of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, and it is headed this way: ``Health reform not causing significant shift to part-time work, but raising threshold to 40 hours a week would make a sizable shift likely.'' I quoted why they say that because the number of people who are working 40 hours or thereabouts, that number is so much larger than those who are working 30 hours or thereabouts; and so any employer who wanted, essentially, to shift the burden from them to others, they are more likely to do it under this bill than under the present circumstance. That is the reason why it has been said by CBO that it would force 1 million people out of employer-based health insurance, and it would add $74 billion to the deficit since it is not offset. You haven't refuted a single one of those statements.…”